Dyme Def’s new full-length, Yuk the World, drops tomorrow (Tue, 12.6.11). Here then is the refreshingly low-budget video for “Blue Moons and Green Lights,” directed by do-it-all entertainment conglomerate and de facto crew member, BeanOne. The latest chain of clips from Dyme Def has been high on that got-it-for-cheap kitsch which harkens back to the rawness of their debut LP, Space Music. And that’s A-Okay with me.
Category: Video
VIDEO: “Patience (Official Promo Video)” – Wizdom & Epidemmik
Patience, coming December 6, from MC Wizdom and producer Epidemmik.
VIDEO: “Daze” – Peta Tosh
Local rapper Peta Tosh’s new video, “Daze,” directed by the ubiquitous Detooz Films.
VIDEO: “Black Up (Official Album Video)” – Shabazz Palaces
Another “Oh…Damn,” moment from SP. I wonder if Black Up will make 206UP.COM’s Best-Of 2011 list? (Gee, ya think?) Read more of my thoughts on this video, here.
And also this:
VIDEO: “Now I Lay Me” – Juga Hill (feat. Javierre P & Only1wizer)
Feeling the cautionary tale narrative in Juga Hill’s new clip for “Now I Lay Me,” which you can find on the MC’s album, One Way. Listen/buy below.
VIDEO: “Match” – Jay Barz (feat. Partners in Crhyme and Potluck) (dir. by Detooz Films)
#253UP. I watched this video and then promptly failed a drug test. Consider yourself warned.
VIDEO: “Fire Red” – Khat
Every Khat video I’ve seen thus far has been a visual feast of either ambiguous sex or drug non-sequiturs, which are, you know, kinda cool. Sometimes. This one for “Fire Red” has the closest thing resembling a narrative. Affecting performances by the actors involved squeezes an ocean of allegory from the beautiful and disturbing imagery.
Khat has an EP out, too. It’s called Traphouse and you can grab it for free, here.
VIDEO: “How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Discussing Race” – Jay Smooth at Hampshire College
I’m writing-in a Smiley/West ticket on my 2012 Presidential Ballot. And I’m recommending Jay Smooth for a new cabinet position: Secretary of Common Sense. Jay drops knowledge at his first ever TED talk.
VIDEO: “4EverGreen” – KeyBoard Kid
Someday I’ll get off my lazy blog ass and develop a fully-formed opinion on this Based sh-t. Until then, thanks to KeyBoard Kid for linking me to his first music video, “4EverGreen.” Casual cool and sh-t talk over slow-roll synth. I’ve liked stuff like this before. Someone tell me why I should stop ignoring the Based World.
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